1895.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 99 
shrub; young branches terete, puberulous when very young. Leaves 
coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, acute, the base rounded 
or narrowed ; both surfaces glabrous, the upper shining, reticulate, the 
lower dull and the nervation indistinct; main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, faint, 
spreading; length 3 5 to 5*5 in., breadth 1*25 to 2*75 in., petiole *2 to 
'35 in* Racemes about *5 in. long, many-flowered; the bracts rather 
large, ovate, concave, imbricate when young, deciduous. Flowers 
about *5 in. long; petals 6, united in pairs. Fertile stamens 3, about 
as long as the pale staminodes. Fruit sub-globose, the apex truncate, 
*5 in. in diam., enveloped except at the apex by the accrescent calyx. 
Wall. Cat. 6775; A. B. Decaisne Nouv. Ann. Mus. Ill, 438; Miq. FI. 
Ind. Bat. I, Pt, I. 785 ; Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I. 577 ; Kurz For. Flora 
Burma I, 234; Valeton, Olacineee, 115. 
Andaman and Kicobar Islands, Malacca. Distrib : Java, Phillip- 
pines, Burmah, Chittagong. 
Although I have not included 0. merguensis , Planch as a synonym 
of this, I cannot see how it can be specifically separated. 0. Wighti- 
ana , Wall, also appears to me to resemble this too closely to be kept 
distinct as a species. 
2. Harmandia, Pierre. 
Trees with alternate, simple, entire, petiolate leaves. Flowers uni¬ 
sexual, racemose, pedicellate, solitary in the axils of bracteoles. Calyx 
cupular, entire or 4-toothed, greatly enlarged and persistent in the fruit. 
Corolla campanulate or urceolate, fleshy, with 4 short acute valvate lobes 
(in the female flowers 6-to 8-lobes ?) Disc short, thin, annular, crenulate, 
deciduous, embracing the outside of the base of the cylindric staminal 
tube. Anthers 4, sessile, inserted at the mouth of the thick fleshy 
staminal tube opposite the teeth of the corolla, bilocular, introrse, the 
apices reflexed, the connective thick. Pistil superior, pyramidal, sur¬ 
rounded in the female flower by the barren staminal tube, 1-celled; 
stigma 3-lobed, sessile ; ovules 2 (usually only 1), short, free, descending 
from the apex of the short trigonous central placenta. Drupe oblong, 
1-seeded, surrounded at the base by the large, fleshy, spreading, coloured 
accrescent calyx; epicarp fleshy, endocarp ligneous. Seed solitary, 
filling the cavity of the fruit, its testa thin and inseparable from the 
fleshy albumen ; embryo minute, excentric, oblique, near the apex of the 
allumen. Cotyledons flat, shorter than the radicle. Distrib. 2 species; 
both Malayan. 
This genus founded by M. Pierre (Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, No. 97, 
p. 770), is remarkable in having a fleshy staminal tube very like 
that of some Meliacese, and for the enormous development of the accre¬ 
scent calyx which forms a large coloured collar round the ripe fruit. 
